On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:43 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 10/23/2014 05:50 PM, Jungshik SHIN (신정식) wrote: > >> >> Could you explain why treating Hangul and Han identically for the >> justification hurts the justification quality of Hangul-only >> documents (and Chinese and Japanese documents) ? >> > > Okay, I will try to explain. :) > > The constraint of the situation is that we do not know the primary > language or writing system because the document is untagged. Given > this, we must come up with a justification system that is adequate > for all systems. > > In order to adequately handle Japanese and Chinese, we must allow > expansion between Han and Kana characters. > > In order to adequately handle most other writing systems, we must > allow expansion at spaces. > > Korean is kindof a combination of both cases. > > At least one implementation has decided to handle this situation by > expanding at spaces, Han, and Kana, but not Hangul. For Hangul-only > documents, this will expand only at spaces, and for Chinese/Japanese > documents, this will expand among all characters. For these documents, > everyone is happy. But for mixed Han + Hangul documents, this solution > has the behavior we are discussing. [1] > What Gecko does currently is: for Chinese/Japanese documents, expands spaces, Han, and Kana. For any other documents, expands only spaces. The consideration is that, in non-CJ documents, a Han or Kana word may be presented as a single word just like other words, for example: "Hello" is "你好" in Chinese. In this case, Han should not be expanded either. I guess this algorithm should also work fine for Korean documents, in which case, only spaces are expanded. - Xidorn
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